Touching up a corner or seam.
Camera RAW Retouching
Retouching in Camera RAW
Red Eye Retouching in Camera RAW
Portrait Retouching - Example 1
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The following Tutorials relate to the Art 138 Portrait Retouching Assignment. These techniques can also be used for other images and projects. You will see that there are videos for both Photoshop CS4 and CS3. If there is a CS3 video only, then the technique has not changed since the release of Adobe Photoshop CS4. The older videos are lower down on the page.
Art 138 - Portrait Retouching
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5. Review of Basic Workflow.
6. Merge of Basic Workflow.
Group 1: Background Retouching - Reduce and simplify distractions
7. Background Retouching - Creating a Mask using Channels to isolate person from background.
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9. Background Retouching - Final Touches on the Mask using Quick Mask Mode and Paintbrush.
Group 3: Skin - Reduce and simplify distractions
18. Using Patch Tool on skin
Group 4: Skin - Fixing Shadow and Highlight areas
19. Reducing specular highlights on skin.
20. Reducing shadows and “bags under they eyes”.
22. Reducing skin pores using Surface Blur Filter to soften the skin.
23. Keeping important detail on skin using a Layer Mask.
Red Eye Retouching in Adobe Photoshop
Group 6: Teeth, Eyes, Lips, and Eyebrows
25. Whitening the teeth (slightly for a realistic look).
26. Brightening up the “whites” of the eyes.
27. Enhancing pupil color and contrast.
29. Lip color and edges.
30. Eyebrows.
Group 7: Skin Color and Tone
31. Skin Color - movie 1: Warming up skin tones.
32. Skin Color - movie 2: Skin color by the numbers.
Group 5: Overall Skin Clarity & Reducing Pores
8. Background Retouching - Using Lasso Tool and Quick Selection Tool to clean up the Mask.
10. Background Retouching - Using Lens Blur with Mask or Alpha Channel to simplify the background.
Group 2: Hair Distractions
14. Clone Stamp Tool and Spot Healing Brush to remove “Flyaways”.
Group 8: Sharpening for Portraits
15. Using Patch Tool to fill in visual gaps in the hair.
16. Colorizing Roots or parts of the hair.
11. Background Retouching - Using Difference Blend Mode with a layer.
12. Background Retouching - Clone Stamp Tool to finish background distractions.
13. Background Retouching - Using Solid Color Overlays to fix background color issues.
17. More on working with hair roots.
18. Final hair retouch considerations.
21. Reducing wrinkles.
24. Final steps for retouching skin pores
28. More on Enhancing pupil color and contrast.
33. Skin Color - movie 3: Unifying skin color.
34. Skin Color - movie 4: Final Concerns with make-up
35. Presharpen for smooth edge content
36. High Pass Sharpen for edge detail and enhancing eyelashes
35. Overall Tone and Vignettes
Red Eye Retouching
1. Camera RAW for Portraits
2. Basic Workflow for Portraits
3. Hair Edges and Flyaways
4. Filling in gaps in the hair that show the background.
5. Creating a selection and mask for the background.
6. Blurring the background with Lens Blur.
7. Changing the background color.
8. Filling in gaps within the hair.
9. Changing hair color.
10. Working with skin: spot healing brush, healing brush, and patch tool.
11. Blurring skin pores - Part 1
12. Blurring skin pores - Part 2
13. Blurring skin pores - Part 3
14. Changing the skin color.
15. Whitening the teeth.
16. Brightening and Whitening eyes.
17. Making eyes pop with high pass filter.
18. Making eyebrows stand out.
Strategies for portrait retouching.
Strategies For Portrait Retouching
Portrait Retouching - Example 2
